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There's Power in the Blood: Religion...

Bolar, Richard Allen.

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There's Power in the Blood: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Politics of Darwinism in America.

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正題名/作者:	There's Power in the Blood: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Politics of Darwinism in America./
作者:	Bolar, Richard Allen.
面頁冊數:	385 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-03A(E).
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3644266
ISBN:	9781321323696

There's Power in the Blood: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Politics of Darwinism in America.
Bolar, Richard Allen.

There's Power in the Blood: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Politics of Darwinism in America. - 385 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

America's contentious relationship to Darwinism is often inadequately viewed as the product of religious reaction or educative failure. I argue that evolutionary biology has proven contentious in America because of the unique political context into which Darwin's ideas emerged. After the Civil War, evolution's content, and the predominately Northern scientists who supported it, became associated with the politics of radical Republicanism and racial egalitarianism. The Darwinian revision of the concept of racial variety made a polygenist conception of human origins untenable and discredited the structural inequalities implied by the rival "American School of Anthropology". Whereas before Darwin, natural history had formed an important part of the justification for slavery, after the publication of "The Origin of Species" in 1859, natural history became distasteful to the southern planters and slaveholders who had previously appealed to scientific authority.

ISBN: 9781321323696Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

There's Power in the Blood: Religion, White Supremacy, and the Politics of Darwinism in America.
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